Thursday, March 26, 2009

...like when I got a pedicure with my fabulous friend, Katie, last week. The girl doing my nails asked when I was going to graduate. I said this year. Shocked, she looked and me and ask how old I was. "20," I said. She was impressed.

Technically I graduate the very end of December 2009.

And

Technically I turn 21 in a couple of weeks.

But who wants to be technical anyway? Until then, it sounds really cool to be 20 and graduating from college this year.

Friday, March 6, 2009

I remember now.I had forgotten for a little while, but I’m back to reality.You see, I have this finance professor who is so hard to understand. He is a little disorganized, a little bit spacey, and very easily distracted.The material is difficult and I’m not exactly a fan of trying to piece together the tangents in his lectures.

I was getting frustrated. I started to wonder if being a finance major was really all that great. Maybe I should have gotten a general business degree or majored in something like public relations or communications.Those majors don’t have to compute the WACC, APV, CAPM, FCFs, or P/E ratios.

On another note, Scott and I have been watching home renovation shows like “Income Property”, “Rate my Space”, and “My First Place”.It has gotten me into a crafty mood.I started looking at craft websites and finally found a project that I thought suited my skill level.You can read about it here, but the short version is basically some glue and a hammer.

This is what I tried to make.It's cute, right? You’ll notice I didn’t post of picture of what I actually ended up with.That’s because I’m a finance major.I’m happy to be one.Suddenly the unlevered cost of capital seems like a fabulous alternative to being covered in dried craft glue with a hunk of wood that is not cute and honestly pretty wobbly.